Resistant traits in digital organisms do not revert preselection status despite extended deselection : implications to microbial antibiotics resistance

• Main Authors: Castillo, Clarence F. G., Ling, Maurice H. T.
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Medicine::Biomedical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103715; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20015
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Antibiotics resistance is a serious biomedical issue as formally susceptible organisms gain resistance under its selective pressure. There have been contradictory results regarding the prevalence of resistance following withdrawal and disuse of the specific antibiotics. Here, we use experimental evo...